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beccaelizabeth) wrote2009-03-10 09:30 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2009-03-10 09:30 pm
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Random Shoes
Due to being a dedicated and methodical researcher I just rewatched 1-09 Random Shoes.
Due to having seen it, and seen it again just to confirm it was that bad, I rewatched at double speed due to my handy TV box having some really useful buttons.
It's actually immensely better that way. No time to get really terminally bored.
It occurs to me this one is sort of a set with Adrift. It's the impact of the Rift on the lives of ordinary people. One moment of contact with the alien having a defining impact.
It's unfortunate this one harped on the 'geeks, so sad' thing and forgot to include Team Torchwood. Even Gwen is oddly redefined into looking all sad and pouty and then kissing the dead guy. I like that she does investigation and won't be put off, I dislike that she seems to be chanelling the Ghost Whisperer ancestral lookalike while she does it.
The ending for me fails on the basic weird science plausibility meter: One weird result that makes story we'll buy, two with no causal link and bye bye. He's invisible and following her around? Okay, whatever, lets see what you do with it. He's suddenly visible and physical and can change all the rules conveniently? :eyeroll:
Also, I realise walking in front of cars while having a moment of happy happy about the Thingness of the universe was kind of a theme, but Gwen has far too many moments of pure idiot in the first season, especially pure idiot that has to be saved by men. Blah.
The more I rewatch season 1, the more I want to get to season 2.
And yet still I miss some of the stuff they dumped between seasons.
I must try and write a medium.
Due to having seen it, and seen it again just to confirm it was that bad, I rewatched at double speed due to my handy TV box having some really useful buttons.
It's actually immensely better that way. No time to get really terminally bored.
It occurs to me this one is sort of a set with Adrift. It's the impact of the Rift on the lives of ordinary people. One moment of contact with the alien having a defining impact.
It's unfortunate this one harped on the 'geeks, so sad' thing and forgot to include Team Torchwood. Even Gwen is oddly redefined into looking all sad and pouty and then kissing the dead guy. I like that she does investigation and won't be put off, I dislike that she seems to be chanelling the Ghost Whisperer ancestral lookalike while she does it.
The ending for me fails on the basic weird science plausibility meter: One weird result that makes story we'll buy, two with no causal link and bye bye. He's invisible and following her around? Okay, whatever, lets see what you do with it. He's suddenly visible and physical and can change all the rules conveniently? :eyeroll:
Also, I realise walking in front of cars while having a moment of happy happy about the Thingness of the universe was kind of a theme, but Gwen has far too many moments of pure idiot in the first season, especially pure idiot that has to be saved by men. Blah.
The more I rewatch season 1, the more I want to get to season 2.
And yet still I miss some of the stuff they dumped between seasons.
I must try and write a medium.
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LOL. Well said.
I have a lot of problems with this episode, and I'm sure I'd like it a lot better if it were an episode of something else, and the Torchwood team weren't in it at all. A story about a boy who find his father after he's become a ghost, and comes to terms with a pivotal event in his past - no problem.
Except that I don't watch that kind of TV show at the best of times, and putting the Torchwood team into it just enough to say they're there (but not in character) doesn't help. I thought that "From Out of the Rain" suffered from the same problem: the Torchwood characters could have been anyone.
I thought "Adrift" was a lot better as a story, though it didn't entirely make sense to me, either.
I always wondered if I was totally missing the point, but I never figured out what a Dogon Sixth Eye actually was, or what it did, or why Jack didn't care.
I was also disappointed that the person bidding against Eugene's friends wasn't Henry Van Statten, who is one of my very favourite Doctor Who villains, and who must be collecting alien artifacts already. And no, I can't prove it!
I find in retrospect that I like series 1 better than series 2, for various reasons, but the writing is generally better in series 2. But they did lots of things in series 2 I liked less than in series 1.... wonder how series 3 will match up. Should be tighter, I hope.